Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company v. Trustees of Sixth Presbyterian Church’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When a party is dissatisfied with the decision of his cause in an inferior court, and intends to seek a revision of the law applied to the case in a superior jurisdiction, he must take care to raise the questions of law to he revised, and put the facts on the record for the information of the appellate tribunal; and, if he omits to do so in any of the methods known to ,the practice of such courts, he must be content to abide the consequences of his own neglect. Evidence, whether written or oral, and whether given to the court or to the jury, does not become a part of the record unless made so by some regular proceeding at the time of the trial, and before the rendition of the judgment. Whatever the error may be, and in whatever stage of the cause it may have occurred, it must appear in the record, else it cannot be revised in a court of error exercising jurisdiction according to the course of the common law.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Duncan v. Atchison, T. & S. F. R. · Continental Gin Co. v. Murray Co.